Sus
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Sus
- Belfast
- 1993-06-19
Sus (Sus)
The entertainment series for young people meets women rugby players.
Sus is a live youth programme broadcast on a Saturday morning with quizzes, skits and interviews. This week, the show opens with a tribute to Daniel O'Donnell who has had to cancel some gigs. Jamie and last week's competition winner go to Hamburg. Carolyn is at Antrim Rugby Club chatting with some women players. The 'Heads' quiz offers prizes to the lucky winners. Glenda chats with Lee Hartney who plays Simon Howe on Brookside, the soap opera set in Liverpool.
Sus was one of UTV's first forays into 'youth programming'. A young Patrick Kielty presented comedy skits, competitions and phone-ins.
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Travel back in time to anarchic Saturday mornings in the 1990s with this fondly remembered show for teenagers.
Saturday mornings have always been about starting the weekend with a blast of fun for young people - all the way back to the days of Swap Shop, Going Live or Tiswas. This Ulster Television series pushed the dial slightly further towards anarchy by aiming at older teenagers and, for two series during the mid-1990s, it was the home for riotous humour to welcome in the weekend. Presented by young comedian Patrick Kielty, in one of his first TV appearances, he was joined by local heartthrob Jamie Darling, while future DJ Carolyn Stewart provided each week’s roving reports from around Northern Ireland.
Combining a mix of reports, comedy sketches, musical numbers, celebrity guests, phone-in games and participation from the rowdy studio audience, Sus was enough to blow away the cobwebs left from any Friday night parties and it remains a fascinating snapshot of television embracing 1990s youth culture.